Mediagazer: Apple staff memo says it caught 29 leakers, including staff, contractors, and suppliers, in 2017, 12 arrested; memo implies possible legal action for leaks (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Michael Ferro sells stake in Chicago Tribune parent Tronc to McCormick Media for $208.6 million — Michael Ferro, who resigned last month as chairman of Chicago-based newspaper chain Tronc, has struck a deal to sell his entire stake in the company, according to a filing late Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Profile: new owner of Los Angeles Times, biotech mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong, who plans to move LAT to suburbs, and pursued Dean Baquet and Marty Baron for EIC — LOS ANGELES — As a son of Chinese immigrants growing up in apartheid South Africa, Patrick Soon-Shiong spent his afternoons racing through …

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Tronc fires Lewis D'Vorkin, chief content officer of Tribune Interactive, and lays off several dozen others, including LA-based video and online content teams

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Apple staff memo says it caught 29 leakers, including staff, contractors, and suppliers, in 2017, 12 arrested; memo implies possible legal action for leaks — Company memo says it found 29 ‘leakers’ last year, 12 arrested — CEO Tim Cook pledged to ‘double down’ on secrecy in 2012

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Berkeleyside, a local news site in Berkeley, CA, completes its direct public offering and raises $1M, the first news site in the country to do so — Berkeleyside announced today that it has raised $1 million in capital from 355 of its readers, making it the first news site in the country to do a successful Direct Public Offering.

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Manish Singh / The Outline:

Sources: secure messaging app Telegram is being used to distribute pirated movies, TV, music, apps, and even stolen credentials for online services like Netflix — Law-abiding citizens: Please do NOT download. Thank you. — Since its launch in 2013, the instant messaging platform Telegram …

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Tom Dotan / The Information:

Univision laid off another 150 people on Thursday across the company, including at Fusion Media Group — The cutting at Univision continues. The company laid off more than 150 people on Thursday, across the company, including at the beleaguered Fusion Media Group.

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Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine:

Sources: Snapchat redesign has led to metrics volatility for Discover publishers; Snap has invited publishers to daylong summits for discussion — When Snapchat first rolled out its redesigned app to a select group in January — users in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom — it was met with an immediate backlash.

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Tess Owen / VICE News:

Facebook removes pages linked to white nationalist Richard Spencer and The Nationalist Initiative's page; all pages are linked to “hate groups” by the SPLC — Two Facebook pages associated with white nationalist Richard Spencer have been kicked off the platform.

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Adam Thomas / European Journalism Centre:

The EJC, with €1.7M funding from the News Integrity Initiative and Civil, to offer grants to emerging EU media organizations in October 2018 and February 2019 — It's time to get serious about new journalism models — The European Journalism Centre believes journalists have a key role …

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Tripti Lahiri / Quartz:

Malaysia passes “fake news” law that imposes a $100K+ fine and up to six years in jail on publishers thereof but government could judge what counts as fake news — A month ahead of a general election, Malaysia's new fake-news law has gone into effect—and journalists and rights groups …

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Richard C. Paddock / New York Times:

At Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's trial, prosecution witnesses give inconsistent testimony, admit journos didn't betray any secrets that weren't already in the news — YANGON, Myanmar — Once a week, the two Reuters reporters are shuffled out of their prison cells in Yangon, Myanmar …

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The Guardian:

UK court on right to be forgotten: Google has to remove links about one man who “showed remorse” for past conviction, can keep links for another, who didn't — Businessman wins legal action to force removal of search results about past conviction

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